Prevalence of psychiatric disorder: with and without psychosocial impairment

P. McCardle, J. Prosser and I. Kolvin

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2004; 13(6):347-353

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European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 13, No. 6, 2004, pp. 347-353, "Prevalence of psychiatric disorder: with and without psychosocial impairment", P. McCardle, J. Prosser, I. Kolvin. © Steinkpoff Verlag 2004.

Abstract: 

Objective: To identify rates of psychiatric disorder in a representative sample of primary school children in a North of England city. Method: The study obtained multi-criterion screen data on a representative one-in-three sample of 7- and 8-year-old children in Newcastle upon Tyne. It also obtained psychiatric interview data for screen-positive and a proportion of screen negative children. In addition the clinically trained interviewers rate psychiatric impairment.

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